One Exercise Session or Disturbed Night of Sleep Still Affects Cognition Weeks Later
The everyday effects of sleep, exercise, heart rate, and mood—both good and bad—could linger in our brains for over…
Tag: Neurology
Our Brain Registers What We Expect to See When Watching Routine Actions, ‘What we would do next, becomes what our brain sees’
Advancements in the study of neuroscience have shown that there are several kinds of circumstances where what we think…
The Benefits of Nootropic Mushrooms — Fungi for the Brain
This is part three of a three-part story on supplementing with medicinal mushrooms. You can read part one about…
Bad Dreams? Could be Parkinson’s — Study
People have bad dreams all the time, but could there be underlying neurological factors influencing their manifestation? Going to…
The Gut Microbiome Contributes to Social Dominance
A certain type of bacteria, combined with one of the most short-chain fatty acids in the human body, seems…
Nicotinamide Riboside Increases Brain NAD+ Levels and Fights Off Parkinson’s Disease
Generally correlated with the aging process, Parkinson’s Disease affects 1-2% of the human population above the age of 65.…
Brain Speed Doesn’t Begin to Decline Until Age 60
Mental processing speed does not start to decline until age 60, according to analysis of over a million participants…
Waking Up Just After Falling Asleep Helps Problem Solving—Old Myth Confired
Waking up just after nodding off — even for just 15 seconds, can unlock the answer to difficult problems,…
The Brain Prefers to Create Memories Out of The Best Life Stories
As our life unfolds, the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for creating short term memories for long…
The MEND Protocol and the End of Alzheimer’s?
Clinical trials of a new precision, or functional medicine approach to targeting, and reversing cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s Disease…
Transplanting Microbes from a Young Mouse into an Old One Reverses Age-Related Cognitive Decline
Story at a glance… When receiving a sample of a young mouse’s gut microbiome, age-related cognitive decline was reversed…
The Medical Wonders of Caloric Restriction: Part 2
Taken from an earlier story from World at Large… In 2007, researchers at the Duke University School of Medicine…
Even More Evidence Links Shorter Sleep Duration to Increased Risks of Dementia
Neurology has shown us that the body has but one onboard mechanism for preventing dementia in our later years:…
BDNF — Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor is a Major Cognitive Enhancer and Functional Medicine Goldmine
A growth-factor compound produced in our brains and muscles is emerging as having potentially mitigative effects on neurological disease,…
Study Reports Psilocybin Tamps Down Activity in the Brain’s Mysterious Center of Ego
Latin for “hidden away” the word Claustrum also applies to a central and deep down region of the brain…
Blue Light Exposure After Dark Creates Lasting Depressive Symptoms in Rats
From the dawn of life until now, an organism’s perception of light and dark has been an important trigger…
The Brain Continues To Birth New Neurons Even At Ninety Years Young
For the first time in history, a team of Spanish researchers have proved that brand-spanking-new neurons are continually created…